Can Windows 7 Still Upgrade to Windows 10
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Groovy Post says the same thing that we've said for years: "So, are there any legal challenges related to this? Microsoft did say the free offer ended in July of 2016. It seems that was more of a formality or possibly marketing mumbo jumbo to create a sense of urgency."
The marketing side of things is the only one saying that options have ended. The licensing department (the only official sources) say otherwise.
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@bnrstnr said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
@DustinB3403 said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
Yes, which your missing the point here. Microsoft is stating that only valid licenses are eligible aka licensed.
You're missing the point. All we want is something that clearly states that a valid Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 license is valid for Windows 10.
And we have that. At this point, we have a clear legal upgrade path. Every license, every site, every EULA in the path agrees.
If you feel that Microsoft got the licenses, and technical verification wrong, the onus is on proving that through a legal license in the path. No marketing website or third party suggestion matters. All that matters is if you violate some agreement in your acquisition path that should have stopped you. Otherwise, the licenses as we have them seem as clear as can be.
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The only thing really missing is "promotional material" to market the upgrade path. But we've also covered, as have other sites, why they are marketing one thing but doing another.
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Since you can call MS to get the license upgrade and that is valid, that they made that process automatic to stop from having to field all of those calls is both obvious and shows that this is official. They used to require you to phone in to do this, now they don't even require that. So there was a technical restriction in the past, but no longer. but never a licensing restriction.
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@DustinB3403 said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
Yes, which your missing the point here. Microsoft is stating that only valid licenses are eligible aka licensed.
They have no solidified way of stopping something that is circumventing their systems from upgrading, short of dragging the offender into litigation.
The same goes for every other OS they've released in the past decade and a half. Just because you can do something doesn't make it legal.
You've proven the point.
@scottalanmiller said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
But we know it is because when you activate you query Microsoft and ask, and they verify. So that's black and white, since there was no workaround, and they verify, you know the answer.
You are seeking an implication that isn't there.You say there is no solidified way of doing this, Scott says it's black and white because it queries Microsoft and asks... Your pirated version was activated, yet it's not legal somehow?
The whole thing is just so confusing /sarcasm
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@bnrstnr said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
You say there is no solidified way of doing this, Scott says it's black and white because it queries Microsoft and asks... Your pirated version was activated, yet it's not legal somehow?
The whole thing is just so confusing /sarcasThis has been completely covered by the EULA. How are you missing that? The EULA spells this out, so your point makes no sense. The activation is only applicable if the license is valid. Since it is, the activation is valid. Period. Black and white, no gray area, no complexity.
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Every time I've said it...
EULA + Activation.
But you keep resorting to the obviously unworked EULA or activation. And & Or are totally different concepts. You can't state that "or" doesn't work when we are only discussing "and". Of course "or" doesn't work when the entire thing depends on the "and".
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@bnrstnr said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
@DustinB3403 said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
Yes, which your missing the point here. Microsoft is stating that only valid licenses are eligible aka licensed.
You're missing the point. All we want is something that clearly states that a valid Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 license is valid for Windows 10.
You are conflating being able to do something with being licensed to do something.
I was able to upgrade =/= being licensed to do it.
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So instead of talking about obviously disallowed pirated versions.... if you feel that we have something wrong in our interpretation of the EULA, then talk about what we are talking about which is exclusively the situation where you have a valid license, the EULA is in force, and the technical verification of the key with Microsoft is approved. That and only that situation has ever been discussed as being valid. Any other situation is misdirection. Absolutely no one has claimed that pirated software is a legal upgrade eligible or that activation alone means anything, etc.
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@DustinB3403 said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
I straight up skipped Windows 8 and jumped to Windows 10 with my hacked Windows 7 ISO, and got Windows 10 for free too at the time (I've since got a new system but w/e). Doesn't make my hacked ISO legit and valid.
You upgraded to Windows 10 FROM non-genuine software, therefore, your WIndows 10 license (and original version) is invalid and you are not licensed.
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It's a good discussion, don't get me wrong. This is something that we really want to get to the bottom of. But I feel like we have. I feel that we have an extremely solid license situation where MS has confirmed that the upgrades are valid currently (but they could shut them off anytime that they want)... because everything from the download, to the license, to the activation confirm this together as a consolidated whole, and that all "non-valid" concerns are out of band or non-applicable to the situation. There is concern that other upgrade paths have gone away, but those aren't part of the one used today.
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@Obsolesce said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
@DustinB3403 said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
I straight up skipped Windows 8 and jumped to Windows 10 with my hacked Windows 7 ISO, and got Windows 10 for free too at the time (I've since got a new system but w/e). Doesn't make my hacked ISO legit and valid.
You upgraded to Windows 10 FROM non-genuine software, therefore, your WIndows 10 license (and original version) is invalid and you are not licensed.
Correct, and that was his point.
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@scottalanmiller said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
@Obsolesce said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
@DustinB3403 said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
I straight up skipped Windows 8 and jumped to Windows 10 with my hacked Windows 7 ISO, and got Windows 10 for free too at the time (I've since got a new system but w/e). Doesn't make my hacked ISO legit and valid.
You upgraded to Windows 10 FROM non-genuine software, therefore, your WIndows 10 license (and original version) is invalid and you are not licensed.
Correct, and that was his point.
Oh, I misinterpreted it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
@bnrstnr said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
You say there is no solidified way of doing this, Scott says it's black and white because it queries Microsoft and asks... Your pirated version was activated, yet it's not legal somehow?
The whole thing is just so confusing /sarcasThis has been completely covered by the EULA. How are you missing that? The EULA spells this out, so your point makes no sense. The activation is only applicable if the license is valid. Since it is, the activation is valid. Period. Black and white, no gray area, no complexity.
You guys haven't proven anything stating that Windows 7, 8, 8.1 licenses are valid licenses for Windows 10. You keep saying that your Windows 7 license is valid, therefore the application is applicable, but the entire point of the last 50 posts in this thread is trying to prove that the license is, in fact, valid. How are you missing that? Why on earth would a Windows 7 license be a valid Windows 10 license if you missed the free upgrade promotion? It's a completely different product. The onus is on me to prove it's not valid, so is there something in my AutoCAD licensing saying specifically that a Photoshop license doesn't count as a valid AutoCAD license, of course not, because why would it? Why would a license for a different software count as a license for something else??
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@Obsolesce said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
@DustinB3403 said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
I straight up skipped Windows 8 and jumped to Windows 10 with my hacked Windows 7 ISO, and got Windows 10 for free too at the time (I've since got a new system but w/e). Doesn't make my hacked ISO legit and valid.
You upgraded to Windows 10 FROM non-genuine software, therefore, your WIndows 10 license (and original version) is invalid and you are not licensed.
Exactly, I stated as much, I upgraded from a non-valid source. MS couldn't tell the difference, but I did. I was not legal at the time. That license is long gone as is the hardware, but the point remains just because you can do something, doesn't equate to being allowed and licensed to do that.
You can snort cocaine, doesn't make it legal to pose or snort cocaine. . .
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@bnrstnr said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
You guys haven't proven anything stating that Windows 7, 8, 8.1 licenses are valid licenses for Windows 10.
Yes, we have. That's what you are missing. Because Genuine Windows 7 activates as Windows 10, that means that Microsoft themselves have verified that that WIn 7 key is a valid Win 10 key.
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@DustinB3403 said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
@Obsolesce said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
@DustinB3403 said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
I straight up skipped Windows 8 and jumped to Windows 10 with my hacked Windows 7 ISO, and got Windows 10 for free too at the time (I've since got a new system but w/e). Doesn't make my hacked ISO legit and valid.
You upgraded to Windows 10 FROM non-genuine software, therefore, your WIndows 10 license (and original version) is invalid and you are not licensed.
Exactly, I stated as much, I upgraded from a non-valid source. MS couldn't tell the difference, but I did. I was not legal at the time. That license is long gone as is the hardware, but the point remains just because you can do something, doesn't equate to being allowed and licensed to do that.
You can snort cocaine, doesn't make it legal to pose or snort cocaine. . .
My entire point of bringing this up repeatedly was to address Scott's bogus claim that the activation server queries home so therefore you MUST be licensed... it's not black and white.
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@bnrstnr said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
Why on earth would a Windows 7 license be a valid Windows 10 license if you missed the free upgrade promotion?
Because Microsoft determined that it is so. Why do you keep trying to override Microsoft themselves? You query them to see, they say it is, it's that simple.
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@scottalanmiller said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
@bnrstnr said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
You guys haven't proven anything stating that Windows 7, 8, 8.1 licenses are valid licenses for Windows 10.
Yes, we have. That's what you are missing. Because Genuine Windows 7 activates as Windows 10, that means that Microsoft themselves have verified that that WIn 7 key is a valid Win 10 key.
Windows non-genuine also activates. For the 10th time, activation doesn't mean anything at all and isn't even relevant.
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@bnrstnr said in Started as Win 7 Issue.. Now Job Searching?:
My entire point of bringing this up repeatedly was to address Scott's bogus claim that the activation server queries home so therefore you MUST be licensed... it's not black and white.
You, again, to try to make the point make sense, left out that only a valid license applies to this situation. In which case, it is very obviously true and black and white.
